Adenium obesum - Desert Rose Flowering

Beautiful I can admire from a distance.no hope of me growing it.

Gorgeous

Bjs:

It can be grown by a bright window indoors. It does do best in full blazing hot sun outdoors, though.

Looks great Andy. Envious. I gave up on that family..unless HD has them in a nice color like yours for a low price. Even then,I know,its just a matter of time before they collapse from some winter or indoor disaster.

Gogeous plant. I've always wanted one of these

this looks like it's best year for blossom, D1. Beautiful plant. Every year I enjoy your desert rose's progress!

Stan,

Thank you. This is my oldest plant. I purchased it in 2004 and 2004-2005 we had about 27 inches of rain! It survived winter water-logged, which was a miracle. It was the winter which broke the 7 years drought (and one of the rainiest winters on record).

I over-watered my white and ice pink varieties during a very warm winter back in 2014 (I think) and they died! They don't like much water even during warm to hot weather in winter. I wish I could find the white variety which faded to blush. I purchased it at Home Depot during the drought. It was only $5.00 for a nice plant. It was part of the drought tolerant plants for sale for the landscape.

Bathgate:

It's definitely worth trying. It must be kept on the dry side because it's a true desert plant.

Lori:

This plant bloomed much earlier and I think better last year. We had really extremely hot weather in February (hottest on record) which caused it to flower early.

Lovely looking flowers! The (true) roses have flowered earlier than I have ever seen them do before here in the UK! I was flabbergasted to see a yellow climbing rose flowering on a wall just half a minutes walk from where I live! It was only just gone the the middle of APRIL! Not May or June but April!

It's like the Daffodils that flowered in the street near where my bother lives. They were flowering on December 20th 2016! Even I had them in flower on the balcony before January was out! Neither of these things had ever happened before in my more than 50 years of gardening!

That's great the roses bloomed early for you. :>))

Roses start flowering in February or early March here. They can produce flowers during any month of year here, also.

Wow! That's amazing about the Daffodils! I guess if I ever went there and saw the plants blooming early I wouldn't be so surprised (someone would have to bring it to my attention that they were blooming early. lol) I'm so used to these plants flowering very early here in San Diego.

Few Daffodils actually come into flower in February here in the UK - though there is a very good variety called "February Gold" that as its name suggests, flowers in February.

Most Daffs don't start till March & then continue through April with an occasional late bloomer in May - as I found out this year! I'd bought some mixed, unnamed mini-Daffs in the autumn to put on the balcony railings, some flowered but others I thought were not going to flower. In fact the leaves on some of the bulbs were already beginning to turn slightly yellowish when I discovered some buds in the bulbs I no longer expected to flower!

50 years ago roses never flowered before June - I clearly remember wishing for a rose to come into flower in my garden before Chelsea Flower Show ended at the end of May - or, at the very least, to open in the first days of June - I never saw that day come before I left my parents house to go to Spain in 1972. When I finally came back to the UK to live, (16 years ago this month!), I discovered in May the following year that roses now flowered before the Chelsea Flower Show even got under way! Since then I've come to realize that that's now the "normal" time for them to come into bloom but this year they left me flabbergasted flowering in the middle of April!!!

The winter just passed wasn't as mild as the winter of 2015-6 but even that year the roses didn't come into bloom before the middle of May! What made the difference I don't know or if this will be a continuing trend again I don't know. I will be on the look out for the earliest flowering roses next year to see if they flower in the middle of April or May!

You make a really go point about plants, trees flowering out of "normal" season. It appears to be happening a lot in many areas of the world. I think global warming is definitely part of the equation, of course, there could be other factors.

I know our winters, even here in San Diego are getting hotter. Much less rain and much more sun and hot temps. It's not just a little above normal, sometimes it's well above normal for a very long period of time. I know something is going on with the climate.

Yes, I believe you are right, there has been a definite shift in climate pattens & it's not down to local variations or even seasonal variations either. 50 years ago you couldn't get a rose to flower outside without some sort of protection before Chelsea Flower Show week (Last week in May) at the very earliest now they flower at least a month earlier - every year! This isn't a one off occasion but an annual thing that's been going on for decades!

The Daffodils flowering before Christmas may be a one off event but roses flowering a month earlier EVERY year than they did 50 years ago definitely isn't!